Rick Perry Walks An Immigration Tightrope

In what may have been the most surreal moment of the present GOP presidential campaign, Arizona’s sheriff Joe Arpaio tweeted this: Just received phone call at my house from TX. […]

This is the week of the big showdown in a Texas courtroom. I don’t mean to breech the fuzzy limits of melodrama, but what happens in that federal courtroom could change the politics of […]

The painting in the picture depicts the moment that Los Angeles  journalist Ruben Salazar was killed 41 years ago. For many years the cause of Salazar’s death was a matter of controversy and […]

It’s happened again. Another state level immigration law has been blocked by a federal judge, this time in Alabama. News Taco reported on this law and on the fact that among all of the state level […]

This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]

If you’ve ever wondered about the type of muck that sits at the bottom of the Tea Party barrel, here’s a sample: U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), was in Farmington, NM, […]

A Colorado Congressman says he’ll introduce a bill to repeal the language requirement of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). News Taco reported on the fact, and according to the Denver Post U.S. Rep. […]

According to dueling polls released this week President Barack Obama’s popularity rating among Latinos is dragging, it’s the lowest his popularity has ever been. ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions has Obama at a 63% approval rating; the venerable […]

Somewhere in a White House West Wing strategy room there must be an outline of  an immigration policy plan scrawled on a whiteboard. And I imagine that the plan is as […]

This is a major disruption. Just when you thought you had the immigration issue sorted, boxed, wrapped and tidy, an undocumented worker does something heroic. Now we have to re-sort everything. It happened […]